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Everything posted by notin

  1. notin
    He loves you, too...
  2. notin
    Actually many scouts like Cordero’s defense. His metrics are based on 600 innings spread out 3 positions and 4 seasons and tell very little at this point. Clint Frazier’s metrics are worse and based on larger samples, but because some clearly stoned BBWAA member finagled a Gold Glove nomination for him, Yankee fans think he’s actually good out there...
  3. notin
    Have we seriously reached the point of claiming we miss Tzu-Wei Lin? What’s next - decrying management for letting Sam Travis get away? If you like Lin, don’t worry. He’ll be available next year. And the year after. And the year after that. And, heck, probably after every year until finally he decides to retire...
  4. notin
    Depends. Do you think 1995-1999 deserve asterisks as well?
  5. notin
    As a doctor, you know surgery is the most extreme medical solutions and typically a last resort. I get why people try to avoid. Plenty of people who are not MLB pitchers do what they can to avoid it. We as fans get frustrated because we know how it usually ends anyway. But honestly, in the same position, I would do everything I could to avoid surgery...
  6. notin
    The Yankees have been sanctioned once already...
  7. notin
    ... which was immaterial, the especially since the rest of the bullpen put the other three on base. Benoit was the fourth reliever in that inning...
  8. notin
    Odorizzi to Astros. This one looked obvious once Framber Valdez went down. Next up - Rick Porcello...
  9. notin
    So... TJ surgery getting more likely...
  10. notin
    Not only a small sample size, but not even a representative one. Not every pitcher he’s faced will be in MLB. And who knows what speed the ones he is facing are at right now...
  11. notin
    Also Arroyo is out of options. Chavis is not...
  12. notin
    No. I used Ortiz’ shot as an example of their woeful bullpen...
  13. notin
    That was my point...
  14. notin
    He probably suspected it, but he had know way of knowing as that would have been tampering...
  15. notin
    And he very well might put those numbers up. In Worcester...
  16. notin
    I don't think the idea was sustained success at a lower cost. While I am sure Henry would prefer that, I think sustained success alone would be enough. Just because they tried to reset in what was obviously a lost season anyway doesn't mean that is the plan every year. I do think the strategy would be different this offseason if they at least had a healthy Sale. And the Sox payroll right now is like $190 million. Can we at least get into the mindset that spending $190 million on anything other than a remote island in the Pacific is not going cheap?
  17. notin
    They took on about $73mill in salary and gave up a good young player and a top prospect. It really was about the best the Sox could hope for...
  18. notin
    And here is the thing. Some of the "answers" to these questions will be "no". At least this year. Some will be "yes". Of course, the Sox really need Sale back to maximize their chances at a title anyway...
  19. notin
    Maybe but the bottom line is that facet of his team consistently underperformed. Now DD did not completely ignore it, acquiring relievers in the off-season. (Of course, at one point his "answer" was 39yo Joe Nathan. Sure he did get a reliever, but let;s get real. Nathan was far from his best days.) But he also did not make changes when those same flaws kept arising. It's funny - here in Boston fans complained in the post-Nomar years that the team just could not find a SS they liked. As the team went through Cabrera and Renteria and Gonzalez and Lugo and Scutaro, etc. And that team also made the post-season every year but one. If you want definitive proof that his weak bullpen was not the factor in winning a title, fine. But are you going to stand by the "good enough" argument to justify it being ignored year after year while the window was open for the Tigers as their team came up just short despite having three surefire Hall of Famers on the roster?
  20. notin
    Or if Bud Selig had allowed the post-strike 1994 free agent signings to stand when the Sox inked Sammy Sosa, Kevin Appier and John Wetteland to deals...
  21. notin
    That did happen. But then what happens when those players age and decline or get injured and you have one of the highest payrolls in the league and the team is barely above .500? And the bulk of those same players are coming back not only the next season but also the season after? And a big chunk are back even for the season after that? And they are not likely to stop declining and start improving in that timeframe. What were the Sox supposed to do after 2019? That team was unexciting. 84-78 is 3 bad innings away from beng .500. How does a team in that position get better? Especially once they extended Sale? The team had a payroll of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. Spending was not the issue. In fact, it had apparently reached it's limit. And I hope you can agree that a quarter of a billion should be enough to pay 25 people. That's an average of nearly $10 million per player. Complaining that you do not like the metrics and the value - the very formula the team used to win 4 championships - is not the answer. Maybe another 86 year hiatus will make some fans happy...
  22. notin
    Something that can be said about a lot of teams...
  23. notin
    Price and Eovaldi too. And those are the two I complained about the most. However, an argument can be made that without Price, there is no title...
  24. notin
    Not. It's an argument that they were the best of five teams in one division. It doesn't mean they did not have bullpen issues. They clearly did...
  25. notin
    So they should have kept him and maybe finished ahead of Balitmore? If the Sox didn't deal Betts, they would still have very, very likely still have missed the post-season and watched him reach free agency anyway. And even if they somehow made the post-season, like maybe if 3 or 4 other AL teams all missed their flights or something and got disqualified for it, how far were they going to go with Martin Perez headlining the rotation? All keeping Betts does is maybe keeps the Dodgers from winning it all...
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